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thinking of driving your .1 GT3 for 175K miles???

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Old 03-27-2014, 01:01 AM
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Default thinking of driving your .1 GT3 for 175K miles???

Make sure to keep your variocam system happy.
saw a car at a local indy today.
183K miles with engine out due to what is initially diagnosed as variocam failure.

WOW
anyone else here anywhere near 83K miles, much less 183K?
The cam covers were off and the lobes looked pretty good for the mileage.

Craig
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I want to meet that guy so I can buy him a beer.
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WOW... that is impressive... I've never even put close to that on any of my cars! But I do switch fairly often..
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wow, that's cool.
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That will be difficult to top. 2nd round is on me.
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almost 200k miles....... not too shabby.
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Very cool, even my '93 has a 100k miles to go before being that cool.
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At that rate I am going, I'm going to need another 50-60 years.
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That is awesome. That guy loves life.
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He obviously spends much more time driving his GT3... than GT3 forums!


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Originally Posted by cgfen
Make sure to keep your variocam system happy.
saw a car at a local indy today.
183K miles with engine out due to what is initially diagnosed as variocam failure.

WOW
anyone else here anywhere near 83K miles, much less 183K?
The cam covers were off and the lobes looked pretty good for the mileage.

Craig

White car, a little rough around the edges?
Old 03-27-2014, 12:22 PM
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That's awesome. My e36 m3 that I fully built had 203k on it when I sold it and this makes me feel a lot better that I'm at 52k on my GT3
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Originally Posted by Protocav
White car, a little rough around the edges?

That's the one.
Aren't they all white.......................:
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Totally understandable since he lives in Cali and has all the beautiful roads to drive on!

You Cali guys sure do have it good!
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The last two cars I've owned I've driven and put miles on them. When I get my GT3 in a little over two weeks I plan to drive it as well. It will only have 9000 mi. on it when I get it so I have some catching up.


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